What is Google drive?
Google drive is a "file storage ans synchronization service" that was created by the company Google and presented to the public on April 24, 2012. In Google Drive you can store documents, pictures, files, presentations, videos and all of your media in the cloud. The company got the idea of making this tool in 2006 but it was only available for use 6 years later.
How do you save all of your information?
All of your documents are saved in the cloud. You don't have to worry about USBs or CDs full of information. Google Drive offers 5GB of information free for your use in the cloud, but if you want more space you can pay $2.50 and you can get 20+ GB to fill with information.
Where can you use it?
Google Drive is a program that works online through a website so that you can ensure all of your information is saved in the cloud, but you can also download in and work on it from third party applications that can be downloaded through various different application stores.
Owner?
The company Google is the owner of this tool.
What can you do on Google Drive?
-You can make:
-documents
-presentations
-draw pictures
-edit images
-make charts, graphs etc
-many different people can access the drive through their computers and they all edit them at the same time so you can watch the other people chat etc.
You can go to THIS website to learn many details about Google drive and watch a video that will explain the information thoroughly.
What are some special features of Google Drive:
*There are no files that are "too big" for Google Drive. You can upload any file, no matter the size.
*People that you give access to, can leave comments and view your files.
*In your phone, you can add a feature that of you take a picture, it will automatically be sent to you Google Drive to a special file.
*You can view slide shows in full screen.
* You can now watch what is inside a folder without to having to actually open it, this way you can view previous and not waste your time opening all the folders in a drive.
*You can look at old versions of your file
*You can look at all the revisions that you've made to your documents in the past 30 days
*You can save a document format, it won't change, even if the software is updated.
Another cool thing I discovered is that Google Drive is integrated with an app called "hello fax" and you can fax documents through your computer or even phone. And now you can do it through Google drive too.
This is what hello fax looks like, this way you can send faxes from anywhere you are!
*All you need to do to save a file to your Google Drive is to drag and drop it in a file and then you will be able to access it through any computer/device.
*You can access your Drive through an app or a website.
THIS video was really helpful and explained some features that the drive has compared to other online information saving programs.
Something that I didn't know about Google Drive is that you can add a setting so that all Word documents that you upload will be changed into a Drive format, so then you will have no problems with the document.
You can do advanced searches in Google Drive! You can find documents by just using one word that you mentioned in the document/presentation.
I think I will be definitely be using Google Drive it is free, useful and very modern. We can use it to store homework to make class discussions since everyone can write and edit at the same time. Teaches can also make calendars and post new assignments and students will be able to comment and even post their assignments on the blog therefore all of the students and the teacher can see them. We should definately use this and make like class drives so that everyone can access them, it can save paper so that we can post instead of print
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